Boriss Siliverstovs

Chief Econometrist of the Monetary Research and Forecasting Division, Monetary Policy Department

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Boriss Siliverstovs

Chief Econometrist of the Monetary Research and Forecasting Division, Monetary Policy Department

Boriss Siliverstovs has obtained a Master's degree in Economics (cand. oecon) and a Doctoral degree in Economics (Ph. D.) from Aarhus University in Denmark (2002). Boriss Siliverstovs has mostly pursued his career outside Latvia: he worked as a researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) from 2001 to 2008 and at the Swiss Economic Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (KOF ETH Zurich) from 2008 to 2017.

Boriss Siliverstovs is the author of more than 55 externally reviewed scientific articles published in international journals comprising the following topics: migration, gravity models of trade flows, natural gas prices, development of the leading economic indicators. Boriss Siliverstovs has presented the results of his research activities at more than 160 international conferences and seminars.

In 2017, Boriss Siliverstovs started his career at the Monetary Policy Department of Latvijas Banka as Chief Econometrist, and the range of his research interests covers economic forecasting and modelling of different economic processes.

Pauliina Sandqvist, Boriss Silivestrovs.
Is it good to be bad or bad to be good?: Assessing the aggregate impact of abnormal weather on consumer spending,
KOF Working papers, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich,
accepted for publication in
2018.

Boriss Silivestrovs.
International Stock Return Predictability: On the Role of the United States in Bad and Good Times,
Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals (also covers Applied Financial Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals ),
accepted for publication in
2017.